Create an IAM User

Rather than share your root user credentials with others, AWS recommends that you create individual IAM users who can access your account. You can also create access and secret keys for each IAM user that will allow them to make programmatic requests
to work with resources in your account.

This procedure will show you how to create an IAM user and generate an access key and secret key in the AWS Management Console and add the credentials to CloudCheckr.

The Add tags (optional) page displays. This is an optional step. For the purposes of this procedure, we will not add tags.

Click Next: Review.

The page displays the name of new IAM user, the AWS access type, and the group that the IAM user belongs to.

Review your choices and click Create user.
A message indicates that AWS created the IAM user successfully and lets you know that you can download the security credentials, which contain the user name, password, access key ID, secret access key, and the console login link.

Click Download .csv to save the security credentials as a .CSV export and click Close.